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I am sorry to hear that Robert McCall, 90, has passed away. I don’t think there is a popular artist more intimately connected with NASA and space exploration as McCall. Looking at his work you cannot help but to think that common-place space travel should be both wondrous and possible. He has influenced and inspired millions throughout his lengthy career with his documentary paintings, film concept art (including 2001: A Space Odyssey), postal stamps, and museum murals.

“One of the joys of being an artist is the freedom to create one’s own world…. Like the real world, these excursions of the imagination are fraught with inaccuracies of perceptionit is rare that one glimpses through the veil of time even a hint of tomorrow’s realitynor does it seem important to me whether one’s perceptions are right or wrong, the pleasure is in making the predictions and doing the work.”